The purpose of this assessment is to enable students to develop an effective research plan considering context, research questions, sources, timeline, and larger implications for writing a formal research report; Also to practice working with the Research Proposal as an academic genre and to provide an opportunity for working on stylistics and effective academic discourse.
The research proposal will form a foundation for the final research report. It provides a detailed description of the proposed research project, and is like an outline of the entire research project.